Ken Jennings wrote: (From the blog...)Wordplay Wednesday! Here’s another vaguely geographical thing, because I have that book about maps and all (that you should all buy and read). Take the first two letters off certain country names and you get other words: Yemen is “men,” for example. What nation would you behead by two letters to make…

* the name of a language spoken in that country
* a Spanish word which was also a notable Ken Jennings response on Jeopardy
* the first name of a well-known chef
* an article
* an emotional state
* a city in Kyrgyzstan